Pres. Trump takes aim at Birthright Citizenship

The news has been rife with reports that President Donald Trump is determined to make changes to what is known as ‘Birthright Citizenship.’ Predictably, the radical left in our country are going ballistic.

If they had paid closer attention during the last presidential campaign, they wouldn’t be so surprised. Addressing this misinterpretation of our nation’s Fourteenth Amendment (Sec. 1, key words: “Subject to the jurisdiction thereof”) is a topic he campaigned on. His Hillary-supporting adversaries in the media and the Democrat Party — an obvious redundancy — were so dismissive of the successful New York businessman and political novice, they paid scant attention to his comments. Seeing Red AZ didn’t. They resonated with us and on Aug. 20, 2015, we posted, “Ending birthright citizenship = end to anchor babies.”

Prior to that, on Aug. 9, 2010, we wrote, “Anchor babies and “birth tourism” making the news” noting that Texas Sen. John Cornyn was the latest senior Republican to call for a review of birthright citizenship amid complaints that illegal aliens have abused that post-Civil War constitutional provision. As the former Texas Attorney General and justice on the state Supreme Court, he has a solid legal footing.

The Amendment was adopted in 1868, following the end of the Civil War. Its intent was to give American-born children of freed African-born slaves all of the rights and privileges of citizenship. It was necessary then, but has no relevancy today.

Though he’s gone, be aware in 2010 John McCain hadtwo distinctly different viewpointson this crucial issue within a mere ten days. No wonder the Arizona Republic newspaper deified him during and following his week-long funerals.

Unlike the waffler, conservative SRAZ remains consistent. We’ve included a number of posts for you to peruse. Read them as you are able, but do make a point to check them out. The background information is integral to the current discussion.

Among developed nations, only the U.S. and Canada still grant Birthright Citizenship. Check out the lists, courtesy of NumbersUSA.

When he was a state senator, Russell Pearce wrote this illuminating piece on Birthright Citizenship for FrontPage magazine. Jeff Flake ran his immigration lawyer brother-in-law against Pearce using the most despicable tactics I’ve ever witnessed. Pearce was victorious, and was voted Senate President by his colleagues.

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There is no Supreme Court precedent on birthright citizenship. In the Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873), a civil rights case not dealing specifically with birthright citizenship, a majority of the Supreme Court mentioned in passing that “the phrase ‘subject to its jurisdiction’ was intended to exclude from its operation children of ministers, consuls, and citizens or subjects of foreign States born within the United States.”

SEVERAL YEARS BACK I RECEIVED EMAILS TELLING ME THAT THE PERSON WHO CREATED THE XIV AMENDMENT WAS JACOB HOWARD AND THAT WHEN HE CREATED IT, HE SAID IT WAS FOR BLACKS BECAUSE THEY NOW HAD THEIR FREEDOM AND HE WANTED THEIR CHILDREN TO BE TREATED FAIRLY AND COMPASSIONATELY AND HE ALSO STATED THAT IT

MUST NOT BE USED BY “ILLEGAL ALIENS” NOR BY FOREIGN AMBASSADORS’ CHILDREN.